Sensing Urban Transportation Events from Multi-Channel Social Signals with the Word2vec Fusion Model

Social sensors perceive the real world through social media and online web services, which have the advantages of low cost and large coverage over traditional physical sensors. In intelligent transportation researches, sensing and analyzing such social signals provide a new path to monitor, control and optimize transportation systems. However, current research is largely focused on using single channel online social signals to extract and sense traffic information. Clearly, sensing and exploiting multi-channel social signals could effectively provide deeper understanding of traffic incidents. In this paper, the authors utilize cross-platform online data, i.e., Sina Weibo and News, as multi-channel social signals, then they propose a word2vec-based event fusion (WBEF) model for sensing, detecting, representing, linking and fusing urban traffic incidents. Thus, each traffic incident can be comprehensively described from multiple aspects, and finally the whole picture of unban traffic events can be obtained and visualized. The proposed WBEF architecture was trained by about 1.15 million multi-channel online data from Qingdao (a coastal city in China), and the experiments show the authors' method surpasses the baseline model, achieving an 88.1% F1 score in urban traffic incident detection. The model also demonstrates its effectiveness in the open scenario test.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3390/s18124093
• Record URL:
  http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/12/4093
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2018 Hao Lu et al.
• Authors:
  • Lu, Hao
  • Shi, Kaize
  • Zhu, Yifan
  • Lv, Yisheng
  • 0000-0002-0508-1298
  • Niu, Zhendong
• Publication Date: 2018-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 22p
• Serial:
  • Sensors
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 12
  • Publisher: MDPI AG
  • ISSN: 1424-8220
  • Serial URL: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Detection and identification; Intelligent transportation systems; Neural networks; Sensors; Social media; Traffic data; Traffic incidents
• Identifier Terms: Word2vec
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01691521
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 28 2019 10:12AM